[2997] in Release_7.7_team
Re: An update-related outage in DSpace
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Oct 3 17:18:13 2001
Message-Id: <200110032118.RAA12171@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
cc: release-team@MIT.EDU, mwhitson@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Oct 2001 20:54:22 -0000."
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Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 17:18:08 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Is there SOME way we can do a better job of leaving a way to log in
> if xdm fails to start X?
I believe it is a bug in dm that you don't get a console login on
Linux if X isn't working. Perhaps Mike could look into this.
> Perhaps we should re-consider our decision to make Linux like
> Athena, and turn off virtual consoles?
This is a security issue, not a conformity issue. If you screensave a
cluster machine, people shouldn't be able to switch to a virtual
console and log in as root.
> Let's do please keep in mind that system updates may be needlessly
> running the Xconfigurator program and that that buggy piece of dung
> may damage working config files.
I don't believe system updates ever run Xconfigurator; I doubt your
XF86Config file even changed. I suspect your X server binary changed
(9.0.15 updated the X server RPMs for security reasons) and some
behavior change unrelated to the security issues caused your
configuration to stop working.
